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Risk-Taking Among Chinese Employees

Chinese employees are often accused of not being willing to take risks and therefore fail to be innovative. And yet, many firms in China are trying to do new things and therefore require innovation. In my view, risk-taking behaviour in China is quite... ...full story at Success Stories

from Success Stories on Wed, Jun 10 2009

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03 Jun 09 visit Chinese firms confirm staff onboard missing Air French plane  »  People's Daily Two Chinese companies said Tuesday that seven employees were on board the Air France jetliner that vanished in the Atlantic. Benxi Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd. said four men and two women, including a senior manager, were taking the flight to Paris...
28 Jan 08 visit International Risk Analysis, China Style  »  China Law Blog Brilliant post over at Paul Denlinger's China Vortex blog, entitled, "Risk is in the Eye of the Beholder," on how and why Chinese companies measure risk differently than do Western companies. I have often wondered about this, but without the business...
28 Sep 07 visit China: Bloggers side with Burmese monks  »  Global Voices Chinese government talk of non-intervention in the violent crushing of democracy protests this week in the Myanmar capital Yangon hasn't resonated much with a number of high-profile Chinese bloggers, with several taking the risk of openly joining the Red...
27 Apr 08 visit How To Retain Your Star China Employees  »  China Law Blog Anyone with a business in China knows how difficult it is to retain Chinese high level Chinese employees. Rapidly rising salaries are obviously factor into this difficulty, but according to Andrew Hupert at ChinaSolved, a China retention policy must...
28 Oct 08 visit Property woes hit banks  »  People's Daily Chinese banks may not be taking the beating that their foreign counterparts have suffered due to the US credit crisis, but their share prices have recently been falling like a stone. Although Chinese lenders have nowhere near the same amount of risk...

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